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Patented May-=1, 1883.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE,

ALBERT OTTENHEIMER, OF STUTTGART, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE YOTTENHEIMER BROTHERS, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 276,978, dated May 1, 1883,

Application tiled Fehrnary12,1883. (No model.) v

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT OTTENHEIMER,

. of Stuttgart, in the Empire of Germany, have invented an Improvement in Gorset Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

In Letters Patent N 0. 181,970, I have shown two corset steels or husks laid one on the otherand connected by books on one passing.

through mortises in the other, and a socket at "hereinafter described, in combination with the busks. V

In the drawings, Figure 1 is anielevation of the front part of a corset, with the husks clasped together. Fig. 2 is an edge view with the bufsks or steels separated from the fabric of the corset,thefrontbusk being in section and p 3 is a vertical section of the hinged clasp and steels, in larger size. V

The busks or steels a and b are of suitable width and thickness, and as one. husk rests upon another, when clasped, the husks may he much thinner and more flexible than ,heretosheath, d, of thin sheet metal, surrounding and riveted to the husk, and this, also, is

notched to correspond to the notch in the l fore generally used, and they will not be so I liable tobreak.

At the bottom end of the busk a, there 'a notch, and the husk is strengthened hy a husk. There are also one or more mortises or square holes passing through the husk, as seen at e.

Upon the lowerend of the husk b there is a hook, f, made as a fixture, over which the notched end of the husk ais placed. There are alsohiuged clasps, each being made with afixed joint-block, t, riveted upon the husk b, and at its outer end receiving the joint of the swinging clasp-piece I, having one long and the other a short end.

When the corset is to he clasped, the wearer passes the notched end over the hook f, the clasp-pieces I being swung out at right angles to the husk b, so that the same pass through the mortises in the husk a as that is pressed back against the husk b. The clasp-pieces l are then turned down against the surface of the husk a, and hold the same firmly. By the reverse movement the corset is unclasped, so as to be taken off.

1 claim as my invention- The husk or, having mortises through it and a notch at the lower end, in combination with the husk b, the hook f, attached thereto, and

the joint-blocks 'e', and clasp-pieces l, hinged thereto, as and for the purposes set forth.

. Signed by me this 27th day of January, A. D. 1883. i

ALBERT OTTENHEIMER.

Witnesses:

GEORGE A. GATLIN, OSCAR J. Ron. 

